Garment-supporter.



PATENTED DEC. 13, 1904.

O. A. HARVEY.

GARMENT SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 29.1904.

N0 MODEL.

v Rhuwmg lm/enfor.

STATns NlTE Patented December 13, 190 1.

CHARLES A. HARVEYIOF NORNOOD, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HENRY O.MEADIICR, OF NORVVOOD, OHIO.

GARIVIENT SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 777,095, dated December13, 1904. Application filed July 29, 1904. Serial No. 218,609. (Nomodel.)

To all 1071,0177, it nuty concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES A. HARVEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Norwood, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Garment- Supporters, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to garment-supporters of the class used for mensunderwear; and the objects of my improvement are to provide a thin stripof resilient metal having hooks formed on opposite sides of itsrespective ends, one of said hooks being adapted to clamp the waistbandof underwear, the other being bifurcated to engage with asuspenderbutton and provided with a closure to maintain it in engagementtherewith.

These objects are attained in the followingdescribed manner, asillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is aperspective view of my device; Figs. 2 and 3, side elevations showingdifferent methods of engaging the suspenderbutton; and Figs. 4 and 5,front elevations of different forms of construction.

In the drawings, 6 represents the plane body portion of the supporterand consists of a stripof thin resilient metal which terminates at itsrespective ends in hooks 7 and 8, turned in opposite directions. Insidehook 7 is curved toward the body portion, and thence terminates in anoutward curve therefrom to facilitate the insertion and detachableengagement of the top portion of the waistband 9 of the drawers 11therein. Outside hook 8 is extended parallel with the plane of the bodyand is adapted to detachably engage with the top portion of thewaistband 12 of pantaloons 13. Said hook is bifurcated by means of openslot 14, whereby it is adapted to detachably engage with the shank orneck 15 of the suspender-button 16 and prevent the longitudinal movementof the supporter on waistband 12.

Olosure 17 may be pivotally secured on one of the tangs 18 of the hookor fork 8 and moved into detachable frictional engagement with theopposite tang to close slot 14: to better maintain the supporter inengagement with button 16.

Hook 8 is adapted to detachably engage with a Suspender-Mitten attachedto the inside of the waistband, as shown in Figs. 3 and l 5, or to boththe waistband and the button when the button is attached to the outsidethereof, as shown in Fig. 2, and engaging with Suspender 19.

Having fully described my improvement, what I claim as my invention, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-- 1. As anew article of manufacture, a garmerit-supporter consisting of a stripof thin metal having its respective ends turned to form hooks, the oneof said hooks being parallel with the body of the strip and terminatingin a two-prongcd fork, for the purpose specified.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a garment-supporter consisting of astrip of thin metal formed with oppositely-turned hooks on itsrespective ends, one of said hooks being bifurcated by means of an openslot, and provided with a closure pivotally secured thereon and adaptedto close the slot for the purpose specified.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a garment-supporter consisting of astrip of thin resilient metal formed with oppositely-turned hooks on itsrespective ends, the one of said hooks being curved inwardly and thenceoutwardly and adapted to detachably engage the waistband of anunder-garment, the other being straight and bifurcated with an open slotfor the purpose specified.

CHARLES A. HARVEY.

itnesses:

SANFORD KLEIN, H. (J. IVIEADER.

